CREATIVITY – A DIVINE PROCESS
“IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.”
GENESIS 1:1
Without this beginning, there would be no other, and the secrets hidden within it are answers that help us understand who we are. The Bible is the word of God, which means that in His first address to man, God presents Himself as the creator.
Why, however, is it so important for God that we know that He is the creator and has created everything?
Everyone would agree with the statements – “No one knows the creation better than its creator,” as well as “the creation itself testifies to its creator.”
If we want to understand who we are, we must turn to our creator, and by looking at the creation and its essence, we understand more about the creator.
You have heard at least once that you were created in God’s image and likeness, but what does that really mean?
What is the divine particle embedded in man, giving him the ability to be like God?
In the minds of most people, the thought of free will will now emerge, and they would be right, because it is connected with our divine nature, but let us pay attention to the spirit, without which we could not create and create, just like God.
The forms that live in space and matter first live in the spirit. Every work of art is a material reflection of an “inner work,” i.e. there is an identity of the world of forms in space and in spirit. And the spirit is the legislator.
Without it, we cannot speak of creativity and the creative process. Where else would the “inner work” be born, if not in the spirit?
What then is the spirit? The spirit is the breath of life that God breathes into man, making him eternal and able to realize his intentions.
For us, the creative process is a divine process, and every time we create something good, the divine nature manifests itself in us and we acquire God’s image and likeness.
Creative work is one of the most exhausting, because it engages the whole nature of man on all three levels: spirit, soul and body.
“Like the artist, he works on nature with the givens that material life gives him from himself, and he constantly processes them in order to turn them into his own matter, in order to turn them into spirit and to form them. This work is so difficult that sometimes he gets tired of it, feels the need to rest, to stop shaping and to passively accept what is offered to him from the oceanic depths of life.” – A. Focillon “The Life of Forms”
Let’s not forget that God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh!
CREATIVITY – A DIVINE PROCESS
“IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.”
GENESIS 1:1
Without this beginning, there would be no other, and the secrets hidden within it are answers that help us understand who we are. The Bible is the word of God, which means that in His first address to man, God presents Himself as the creator.
Why, however, is it so important for God that we know that He is the creator and has created everything?
Everyone would agree with the statements – “No one knows the creation better than its creator,” as well as “the creation itself testifies to its creator.”
If we want to understand who we are, we must turn to our creator, and by looking at the creation and its essence, we understand more about the creator.
You have heard at least once that you were created in God’s image and likeness, but what does that really mean?
What is the divine particle embedded in man, giving him the ability to be like God?
In the minds of most people, the thought of free will will now emerge, and they would be right, because it is connected with our divine nature, but let us pay attention to the spirit, without which we could not create and create, just like God.
The forms that live in space and matter first live in the spirit. Every work of art is a material reflection of an “inner work,” i.e. there is an identity of the world of forms in space and in spirit. And the spirit is the legislator.
Without it, we cannot speak of creativity and the creative process. Where else would the “inner work” be born, if not in the spirit?
What then is the spirit? The spirit is the breath of life that God breathes into man, making him eternal and able to realize his intentions.
For us, the creative process is a divine process, and every time we create something good, the divine nature manifests itself in us and we acquire God’s image and likeness.
Creative work is one of the most exhausting, because it engages the whole nature of man on all three levels: spirit, soul and body.
“Like the artist, he works on nature with the givens that material life gives him from himself, and he constantly processes them in order to turn them into his own matter, in order to turn them into spirit and to form them. This work is so difficult that sometimes he gets tired of it, feels the need to rest, to stop shaping and to passively accept what is offered to him from the oceanic depths of life.” – A. Focillon “The Life of Forms”
Let’s not forget that God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh!
CLOTHING
“Clothes are border between our skin and our soul”
D. Mukanov
Why are we dressed or why do we wear clothes?
“Not to be naked” is the foundation.
Next is the question of nudity?
Every normal person, if they somehow find themselves naked, instinctively tries to cover themselves with something, because they feel vulnerable or ashamed. Kenneth Clark in his book The Nude, relying on the English language, calls this state a “stripped body” and distinguishes it from the concept of a “naked body”, which, according to him, used in a cultural sense, is not at all embarrassing.
“What is the naked body? It is an art form invented by the Greeks in the 5th century BC, just as opera is an art form invented in Italy in the 7th century. This conclusion is without a doubt too sharp, but it has one merit – it emphasizes that the naked body is not an object, but an art form.” – K. Clark, “The Nude”
The objects of art that we create have no spirit or soul, they can be a reflection of our creative spirit, just as art itself is a reflection of the universal spirit of its time, but they themselves are not animated, they do not hear or see, and they do not answer, they are not ashamed and they are not embarrassed, that is why we call them inanimate.
If the naked figure sculpted from clay does not need clothing, why, however, does the human body of dust feel such a need? Shouldn’t we look for the answer in our inner world, beyond matter and form?
We did not find a source, text or book specifically indicating when, how and who created the first clothes, except for the book Genesis 3:21 – “And the Lord God made coats of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.”
For us, clothes are a gift from God, a manifestation of mercy towards man, giving him a chance to enter into the presence of God again.
This is the beginning, the solid foundation on which to build our understanding of clothing.
Does this exhaust the topic of clothing? – definitely not!
Our understanding of clothing extends to four levels, which reveal its essence.
- Clothing as a means of concealing nudity
- Clothing as a means of protection from the weather
- Clothing as a means of communication
- Clothing as art
CLOTHING
“Clothes are the boundary between our skin and our soul”
D. Mukanov
Why are we dressed or why do we wear clothes?
“Not to be naked” is the foundation.
Next is the question of nudity?
Every normal person, if they somehow find themselves naked, instinctively tries to cover themselves with something, because they feel vulnerable or ashamed. Kenneth Clark in his book The Nude, relying on the English language, calls this state a “stripped body” and distinguishes it from the concept of a “naked body”, which, according to him, used in a cultural sense, is not at all embarrassing.
“What is the naked body? It is an art form invented by the Greeks in the 5th century BC, just as opera is an art form invented in Italy in the 7th century. This conclusion is without a doubt too sharp, but it has one merit – it emphasizes that the naked body is not an object, but an art form.” – K. Clark, “The Nude”
The objects of art that we create have no spirit or soul, they can be a reflection of our creative spirit, just as art itself is a reflection of the universal spirit of its time, but they themselves are not animated, they do not hear or see, and they do not answer, they are not ashamed and they are not embarrassed, that is why we call them inanimate.
If the naked figure sculpted from clay does not need clothing, why, however, does the human body of dust feel such a need? Shouldn’t we look for the answer in our inner world, beyond matter and form?
We did not find a source, text or book specifically indicating when, how and who created the first clothes, except for the book Genesis 3:21 – “And the Lord God made coats of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.”
For us, clothes are a gift from God, a manifestation of mercy towards man, giving him a chance to enter into the presence of God again.
This is the beginning, the solid foundation on which to build our understanding of clothing.
Does this exhaust the topic of clothing? – definitely not!
Our understanding of clothing extends to four levels, which reveal its essence.
- Clothing as a means of concealing nudity
- Clothing as a means of protection from the weather
- Clothing as a means of communication
- Clothing as art
DANAIL MUKANOV
The story of the creator of VALTASASAR Danail begins about thirty years ago when his mother learns that she is pregnant with her fourth child. However, this joyful news is soon overshadowed by the forecasts that the doctor observing her at the time makes, and carefully advises his mother to have an abortion, convincing her that this child will be born with deformities, that she and his father will have to devote all their care to this disabled child, at the expense of the other three healthy children they already have. His mother said through tears: – Lord, this child is a gift from you, whatever it may be, we will love it!
Thus, in the summer of 1994, Danail appears in perfect health, when his mother is forty years old.
While he is a baby, a childless woman, known to his parents, asks them to take him and raise him as her child, and the end of this story is clear.
Danail develops quickly and starts school at the age of six.
Later he graduated from NFSG with a degree in Entrepreneurship and Management with an excellent thesis on the topic “Fashion Brand”.
He continues his education at the University of National and World Economy, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in “Regional Development and a master’s degree in Regional Management and Business”.
How is his passion and vocation ignited? As a teenager, following fashion trends, surrounded by his mother’s countless magazines – LADA, BOZHUR, BURDA, he grabs the sewing machine and copes with his first challenge without error – he narrows his first jeans.
From that moment on, he begins, little by little, to become more and more interested in sewing and clothes, he begins to watch fashion shows as well, until one confirms all his searches and inclinations regarding sewing and fashion. It is by John Galliano autumn/winter 2012.
The first time he watches it, he asks himself the question: “Is this fashion? Homeless people who are applauded!” But he plays it again. The second time is different, he doesn’t see homeless people, but art carrying a message, charged with philosophy. He already says to himself: “This is a genius, since he manages to make the audience admire something that people treat with disgust, condescension, pity and apathy.”
Since then, Danail has been passionately following the path of realizing his vocation – to create clothing.
With his growth and improvement, he comes to the conclusion that he does not like fashion, nor the associations associated with the use of the word, because they speak of mass character, through which it is difficult to express one’s own individuality.
He likens fashion to a vanishing firework that rises and explodes, bringing only momentary beauty.
For Danail, style is the absolute meaning – a model and definition, valid forever, which appears either between two slopes, marking the ridge of the heights.
With the help of this concept, man expresses the need to know himself in what is most achievable in him, in what is lasting and universal – beyond the meanderings of history, beyond the local and the private.
DANAIL MUKANOV
The story of the creator of VALTASASAR Danail begins about thirty years ago when his mother learns that she is pregnant with her fourth child. However, this joyful news is soon overshadowed by the forecasts that the doctor observing her at the time makes, and carefully advises his mother to have an abortion, convincing her that this child will be born with deformities, that she and his father will have to devote all their care to this disabled child, at the expense of the other three healthy children they already have. His mother said through tears: – Lord, this child is a gift from you, whatever it may be, we will love it!
Thus, in the summer of 1994, Danail appears in perfect health, when his mother is forty years old.
While he is a baby, a childless woman, known to his parents, asks his mother to take him and raise him as her child, and the end of this story is clear.
Danail develops quickly and starts school at the age of six.
Later he graduated from NFSG with a degree in Entrepreneurship and Management with an excellent thesis on the topic “Fashion Brand”.
He continues his education at the University of National and World Economy, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in “Regional Development and a master’s degree in Regional Management and Business”.
How is his passion and vocation ignited? As a teenager, following fashion trends, surrounded by his mother’s countless magazines – LADA, BOZHUR, BURDA, he grabs the sewing machine and copes with his first challenge without error – he narrows his first jeans.
From that moment on, he begins, little by little, to become more and more interested in sewing and clothes, he begins to watch fashion shows as well, until one confirms all his searches and inclinations regarding sewing and fashion. It is by John Galliano autumn/winter 2012.
The first time he watches it, he asks himself the question: “Is this fashion? Homeless people who are applauded!” But he plays it again. The second time is different, he doesn’t see homeless people, but art carrying a message, charged with philosophy. He already says to himself: “This is a genius, since he manages to make the audience admire something that people treat with disgust, condescension, pity and apathy.”
Since then, Danail has been passionately following the path of realizing his vocation – to create clothing.
With his growth and improvement, he comes to the conclusion that he does not like fashion, nor the associations associated with the use of the word, because they speak of mass character, through which it is difficult to express one’s own individuality.
He likens fashion to a vanishing firework that rises and explodes, bringing only momentary beauty.
For Danail, style is the absolute meaning – a model and definition, valid forever, which appears either between two slopes, marking the ridge of the heights.
With the help of this concept, man expresses the need to know himself in what is most achievable in him, in what is lasting and universal – beyond the meanderings of history, beyond the local and the private.